Divisive campaign issue: A Venezuelan migrant with his daughter near the Mexico-US border. Immigration has risen up the agenda of voter concerns in the upcoming US presidential election. — Reuters
IN a year of elections, populist leaders from Europe to the Americas are pushing a narrative that migration is out of control.
Yet for all the hysteria, the number of international migrants worldwide according to the latest United Nations estimate remains a small minority of the total population. Movement within national borders is still “overwhelmingly the norm,” it says.
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